Today was about cleanign up soem loose ends at work.. and preparing to work remotely for about 2 weeks.. 

as I was walkign aroud, I cane across this book by my freind Bill H on a shelf at BETA. 

Nite all, nite sam
-me

i’m super tied in to glimpses of German as I think about Gabe hving to learn the language.. its a pretty cool language.. you cna just keep gluign words together to make new words.. I found this on te instruction of a birdhouse we just got.. it is one word that means “battery safety notice 🙂 

I came hoem early to help get the house ready for a chanuah latke party .. we do this every year.. if I remember correctly this time diane prepped 14 pounds of potatoes.. we had the townsends, the wale/cafferkys , kennys.. and avery..   some babyis.. many freinds.. lots of carbs !

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So fun. it was a great eveing.. and out house will smell like it for weeks !  Chanukah  Sameach (חנוכה שמח)  ya’ll !

nite all. nite sam
-me

 

my good freinds michael and sandy came by beta today for a short tour.. it was great seeing the,. Sandy  is in large part responsible for my moving to Vermont. We grew up together in houston.. good friends.. . she headed up to UVM in our junior year. I went up to see here from MIT one time and fell in love qwith Vermont. At a party I met a woman who’s dad worked at IBM.. I reached out to him. got invited up for an interview (the only one in my life so far).. and got the job.. and the rest is a very wonderful love of our state. 

Michael .. coincidentaly alsi spent te in Houston.. but befre eaitehr of us knw him. now theyve been married for .. 40 eyars.. have two gkids and a new grandbaby !. 

it wa so great showign them around beta !

I spent soem of the day getting my alia ornaments to peopke.. one of the folks who made a donation for them was andrea who used to work for mamava.. she showed me a cool printed circuit board (PCB_ that oneof their vendors (partcle) had given out for chistmass.. I love it !

i’m super psyched that the programs from hackclub that I helped start like the current campaigne http://blueprint.hackclub.com   all came from me seeign thsi cool flame shaped pcb that my freind Colin made for beta.. so far we’ve introduced almopst 5000 kids worldwide to teh fun of building crazy PCBS !

You never know what ripples you can set off in teh world !
nite all. nite sam !
-me

We grabbed weird breakfast (diane made squash filled wihd chia pudding and pomegranate seeds)

we headed down to charlotte and finished up the clouds…. one of the conversations today was about improving the lighting patterns that show on fluffy’s sides.. 

from fluffy we got out of our playa dust stained clothes and drove to hinesburgh to pcik up marcy and finn.. we then met lilly, her BF Dom and their exceedingly curte new baby Gracie !!!!!!!!

THey are so in love with that baby.. makes me smile just to think about it !

nite all, nite sam
-me